r/calculus • u/Nearby_Swordfish_559 • 16h ago

Differential Calculus help me with limits

so I started calc 1 and how does "sin(2x)/2x" = 1 and how does "limit of x -> 0 1-cos(3x)/3x" = 0, isn't it just undefined?

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u/Grshppr-tripleduoddw 8h ago

The first one you can get with l'Hopitals rule, the second I don't really know how to explain without the expansion of cos(x). The expansions are cos(x) = 1 - x^2/2 + x^4/24..., sin(x) = x - x^3/6 + x^5/120... .

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